Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan

Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan (1864-1940) has been described as the most important pioneer of women in pharmacy.

Her father was a doctor and she was educated at North London Collegiate School. She qualified as a pharmacist in 1887 and passed the Major examination in 1888, gaining a silver medal and taking second place in the Pereira competition.

She started as a hospital pharmacist at the Westminster General Infirmary and took over Henry Deane's pharmacy at 16 The Pavement, Clapham Common sometime between 1911 and 1914.[1] Agnes Borrowman became a partner and the practice trained generations of woman pharmacists. By 1923 of the 15 young women from the business who studied at the Pharmaceutical Society School of Pharmacy 14 had taken prizes and scholarships.

In 1924 she transferred the business to Borrowman and founded the Margaret Buchanan School of Pharmacy for Women at Gordon Hall, Gordon Square. She offered a 10 month’s course for the examination of the [[Society of Apothecaries]] for £21.[2]

She was one of the founders of the National Association of Women Pharmacists, becoming its President, and was, in 1918, the first woman to be elected to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, serving until 1926.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hudson, Briony; Boylan, Maureen (2013). The School of Pharmacy, University of London: Medicines, Science and Society, 1842-2012. Academic Press. p. 67. ISBN 0124076904. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Celebrating Women in Pharmacy" (PDF). NAWP Newsletter. June 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Rayner-Canham, Marlene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2008). Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949. Imperial College Press. p. 402. ISBN 1860949878.
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